Rest in Peace

Qyteza: The Chicago Connection

Color

Response to Our Summer Issue

My Mother’s Body

Just remembering her is not enough; resurrecting her is the ultimate goal

Domestic Insurrection

Rough Crossings: Britain, Slaves, and the American RevolutionBy Simon Schama / Forgotten Allies: The Oneida Indians and the American Revolution By Joseph Glatthar and James Kirby Martin

Tomorrow Is Another Day

An Ethiopian student survives a brutal imprisonment by translating Gone with the Wind into his native tongue

Saratoga Bill

He bet cautiously at the track, but elsewhere he was drawn to those with the odds stacked against them

Eclogues

Best Person Rural: Essays of a Sometime Farmer By Noel Perrin

Bearing Gifts

Verde

Learning a foreign language isn’t just about improving cognitive function—it can teach us to sense the world anew

Magic Men

Aging Out

Many of us do not go gentle into that good night

Golden Years: How Americans Invented and Reinvented Old Ageby James Chappel

Under a Spell Everlasting

Thomas Mann’s Magic Mountain, published a century ago, tells of a world unable to free itself from the cataclysm of war

Double Exposure
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On our first memories

Old Christ Church in Alexandria. Virginia, attended by General Robert E. Lee in his youth and pictured here in 1911 (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign/Wikimedia Commons)

Divided Providence

Faith’s pivotal role in the outcome of the Civil War

Righteous Strife: How Warring Religious Nationalists Forged Lincoln’s Unionby Richard Carwardine

The Fair Fields
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Only rarely did the outside world intrude on an idyllic Connecticut childhood, but in the tumultuous 1960s, that intrusion included an encounter with evil

Ideology as Anatomy

How shifting ideas about women’s bodies have affected their lives

Immaculate Forms: A History of the Female Body in Four Partsby Helen King

In the Mushroom
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True foraging isn’t the domain of the weekend warrior; it’s serious, serious business

Island Royalty

A new biography of a Caribbean revolutionary

The First and Last King of Haiti: The Rise and Fall of Henry Christopheby Marlene L. Daut

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